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ugly as sin



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Idioms and Phrases

Physically or morally hideous, as in I can't think why she likes that dog; it's ugly as sin . This simile, first recorded in 1801, replaced the earlier ugly as the devil .

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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